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To ALL WHoM I'rMAY ooNeERN:

Be it knotvn that I, HERVEY WATERS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts', have invented an Improved Blank for Shovels, Ste.; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in con-A nection with tbe drawings which accompany and form partof this specification, is a description of my invention suicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

1 Letters Patent of the United Stat-es2 numbered 62,456, were granted to me on the 26th of February, 1867, for an improved blankfor hoes, shovels, Ste., the blank therein shown and described, and which constitutes the invention, having the Shanks for two blades drawn upon it, one at cach end thereof', with the material for two blades (in connectionlbetween the shanks, the disposition of the material being such that the said central portion thereof may be spread by rolling in direction at right angles .to tbelineof the shanks, by alternate passes upon each side of andfroui the. line central with and between the slianks,to the outside of the blades, thesfme beingeapable of being afterwards rolled doubly in the direction of the line of the Shanks, but from the edges to and over the ears, instead of, as formerly, singly in the same line, but in opposite directions.

My present invention relates to' the construction of blanks embodying iny said patented invention, and the purpose of my imprevementis to obviateadifliculty which to some extent inheresin rolling said patented blanks, as described, from any liability f' the metal to spread over on to the Wrong side of the centre line between the shanks. i

Y My present invention consists in slich a blank, having an incision or deep indentation in one or both of its faces,v in the direct line between the Shanks, so as to partially divide the metal when in a thick state, to prevent its Working over in rolling, as it might otherwise incline to do. l

The drawing represents tbe invention embodied in n blank designed particnlarly for shevcls,r., denoting the 'portion ofthe plate or bar from which two blades are to be produced by rolling; b the metal for the straps, c

the indentation or groove sunk in one or both surfaces ot" the blank, between the straps, and so formed that in rolling from the centre line of said groove outwardly by alternate passes, thereY shall be a proper distribution or disposition of metal kept'np.

I claim a. blank for shovels, hoes, Src., made substantially as shown and described.

HERVEY WATERS.

Witnesses:

F. GouLD, yS. B. KIDDEn. 

